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Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A happy-go-lucky soldier falls at Gettysburg. An officer survives a hair-raising escape after capture at Gettysburg, only to die in the Atlanta campaign. A young volunteer retreats into insanity. Though they did most of the fighting and dying in the American Civil War, "ordinary" soldiers largely went unheralded in their day and have long since been forgotten. Mark H. Dunkelman retrieves twelve of these common soldiers from obscurity and presents...
10) The reconstruction of Mark Twain: how a Confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Confederate Forces Fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause...
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
vii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret southern society that initially sought to establish a slave-holding empire in the "Golden Circle" region of Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. Keehn reveals the origins, rituals, structure, and complex history of his mysterious group, including its later involvement in the secession...
19) Citizen-officers: the Union and Confederate volunteer junior officer corps in the American Civil War
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvii, 322 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 382 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the most effective units to fight on either side of the Civil War, the Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia served under Robert E. Lee from the Seven Days Battles in 1862 to the surrender at Appomattox in 1865. In Hood's Texas Brigade, Susannah J. Ural presents a nontraditional unit history that traces the experiences of these soldiers and their families to gauge the war's effect on them and to understand their role in the white South's...
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